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Reasons Revisited

Reasons Revisited

Cheerful

An occasional series revisiting conversations and ideas from Reasons to be Cheerful (2017-2024), formerly hosted by ex-Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, and Sony Award-winning radio presenter Geoff Lloyd.



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Hello! Do you ever glance at your phone to check an email then look up to discover that two hours have gone by? In a world where information is abundant, our attention is hot property. What exactly do we know about how our attention is drawn and held by the environment and technology around us? We talk to Professor Polly Dalton who researches the psychology of attentional capture and to tech ethicist James Williams about why the issue of the attention economy cuts deep. Does it have the potential to change the course of our lives and restrict our freedom? We try to break free from the shackles of Silicon Valley with Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler, who tells us about his strategy to resist the demands on our attention and time without even having to resort to a brick phone.


Plus: Ed’s in denial about his National Portrait Gallery debut...


Guests

James Williams, technology ethicist at the Oxford Internet Institute and the author of Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy (@WilliamsJames_)


Polly Dalton, professor of cognitive psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London (@PollyDalton)


Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler magazine and author of How to Be Idle (@idler)


More information

Buy or read a copy of James’ book (open access) here


Watch a video of James talking about the attention economy (Youtube)


Subscribe to the Idler or purchase Tom’s book How to be Idle


Is modern life ruining our powers of concentration? (The Guardian, 2023)


Ed mentions The Shallows by Nicholas Carr



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Hello! You may not know it, but for decades Britain has enabled the dodgy dealings of the world's criminals, tax dodgers and kleptocrats, says journalist Oliver Bullough. He's been digging deep into Britain’s role as a 'butler to the world' for years, but very little has changed. Estimates suggest that the equivalent of three times the NHS budget is lost to the economy through corruption every year, so why isn’t the government acting? Oliver is joined by Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge to discuss how and why Britain got into the business of dirty money, why we all should care about corruption, and what we can do to change it.


Plus: Has Ed finally got his own back on Geoff following the vegan cheese making incident?


Guests

Oliver Bullough, Journalist and Author of Butler to the World and Moneyland (@OliverBullough)


Dame Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax (@margarethodge)


More information

Buy a copy of Oliver’s book ‘Butler to the World: How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals


The APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax


Support and learn more about the work of Transparency International (@anticorruption), Global Witness (@Global_Witness), Spotlight on Corruption (@EndCorruptionUK)



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Reasons Revisited - Thank you, next: breaking up with the job for life
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05/07/23 • 57 min

Hello! Geoff’s off this week and friend of the pod and writer Melissa Benn is practicing what we preach in this episode by trialing a new vocation as podcast co-host. This week, sparked by the news of the resignation of Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon - we’re talking all about what happens when you take a step back from a high-pressure job. What comes next? And why is the way we think about careers all wrong? We talk to four guests about navigating new career paths, having a mid-career gap year, and whether the dream job really exists.


Plus: Ed’s gone down a new internet rabbit hole. What is it this time?


Guests

Dr Ali Budjanovcanin, Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology and Public Sector Management at King’s College London, and Career Coach (@AliBudj)

Lucy Kellaway, Economics Teacher and Co-Founder of NowTeach (@lucykellaway / @NowTeachOrg)

Katie White, taking a career break from her role at WWF (@KatieJWhite)

Jaega Wise, Co-Founder and Head Brewer at Wild Card Brewery, London (@jaegawise)


More info

Follow Melissa on Twitter (@Melissa_Benn)

Interested in a career in teaching? Learn more about NowTeach

Attend the 'Teaching Curious with Lord Blunkett' event, hosted by NowTeach (May 23rd)

Check out Wild Card Brewery

Ready to quit your job? Here are 17 things to ask yourself first. (Opinion, Guardian, August 2021)



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Hello! A growing movement of businesses argues we need to rethink their role in society. At the forefront of this are BCorps - a new type of business putting purpose alongside profit. We chat to Paul Lindley, founder of Ella’s Kitchen, about why they became a BCorp and what he’s calling for next. Then academic Lenore Palladino explains how we could embed these principles more widely.


PLUS QI elf Anne Miller on everything from cold sausages to Canadian airports...



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Reasons Revisited - Reasons Revisited: The Four Day Week
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10/20/23 • 14 min

Would you like to work less, feel happier and maybe even do something good for the planet, all with no loss in pay? It’s a dream that could soon become a reality for many, after the world's biggest four day week trial wrapped up last year. We explore the results and dig back through our audio archives to revisit the history of a shorter working week, why it could be a solution to Britain's flatlining productivity problem, and what comes next for the four day week campaign.


Guests

Andrew Barnes, 4 Day Week - Global (@4dayweek_global)

Kate Bell, TUC (@kategobell)

Rachel Kay, Researcher and Will Stronge, co-founder of think-tank Autonomy (@w_stronge / @Autonomy_UK)


More information


Listen to RTBC 55 Living for the (three day) weekend (October 2018)


Listen to RTBC 126 The Four Day Future: Building a movement for shorter working hours (Feb 2020)


Read the report by think tank Autonomy The Results are In: The UK’s four-day week pilot (Feb 2023)


Read more about the UK’s 4 Day Week Campaign


Read more about the global movement for a four day week



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Hello! Capitalism, eh? Despite its creative genius, some would say it's at the root of many of the problems we're facing these days, from planetary breakdown, to poor health and social inequality. How can it become the solution? We're revisiting the idea of purposeful business, a way of re-thinking our system so that companies are also putting the needs of people and the environment up there with profit. CEO of Graze Joanna Allen explains how the Better Business Act and B Corp movement will enable this in the UK. We're talking to Charles Conn about Patagonia's 'earth is now our only shareholder' ethos. Finally, we chat to Cemal Ezel, founder of Change Please, a social enterprise which tackles homelessness through the power of selling coffee.


Guests

Joanna Allen, CEO, graze (@grazesnacks)

Charles Conn, Board Chair, Patagonia (@patagonia)

Cemal Ezel, Founder of Change Please (@CemalEzel / @ChangePlease)


More information

Learn more about the Better Business Act and B-Corps

Find out about Patagonia's environmental commitments

Visit one of Change Please's locations

Live show tickets



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Hello! Nepo-babies are a new-fangled term but the issue of social mobility goes much deeper...in this episode Ed and Geoff explore why the same kind of people often seem to make it to the top. Why does your starting point in life still strongly determine where you’ll end up? We find out why it matters and if there’s anything we can do to change it. We’re speaking to social mobility tsar Alan Milburn, social entrepreneur Joe Seddon who helps state school pupils get into top Universities and to comedian Josie Long about how to open up the creative industries to more people.


Plus: Can Geoff persuade Ed to woo Justine with a ChatGPT Valentine's poem?


Guests

Alan Milburn, Chair, Social Mobility Foundation (@alanmilburn1958 & @SocialMobilityF)

Joe Seddon, Founder & CEO, Zero Gravity (@whatjoedid & @zerogravity)

Josie Long, Comedian & Co-Founder, Arts Emergency (@JosieLong & @artsemergency)


More info

Read the New York Magazine article on nepo babies in Hollywood

Read Vice's article about why American nepo babies have nothing on the British

Learn more about the Social Mobility Foundation and apply to their Aspiring Professionals Programme

Sign up to Zero Gravity as a sixth form student to get mentoring, or as a university student to become a mentor

Read Zero Gravity's Gap Zero Report on the network advantage

Learn more about Arts Emergency, get support as a young person, donate or become a mentor



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Hello! This week we're sitting down, facing the front of class, and taking notes as James Graham, Jez Bennett and Madeleine Holt teach us how we're failing to tutor the next generation adequately, in particular failing to put creativity at the centre of the curriculum. They tell us what needs to be done.

AND

Comedian Alice Fraser joins us to put forward the case for sex licenses, house swapping and the power of sport (not all at once!)

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CONTACT US

[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/reasonstobecheerfulpodcast

https://twitter.com/cheerfulpodcast

https://www.instagram.com/cheerfulpodcast/

MERCH

https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/cheerfulpodcast/

CONTACT OUR GUESTS

James Graham - https://twitter.com/mrjamesgraham

Madeleine Holt - https://twitter.com/meetparents

Alice Fraser - https://twitter.com/aliterative



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Hello! We're on a bus with Cat Hobbs, Director of We Own It, and our transport expert Nicole Badstuber returns. There's more to buses than fighting for the second deck front window seat. With 5 billion journeys made per year in the UK, we're owed a service that works. But millions of us just don't have one and it hardly ever gets discussed. We find out why and what needs to be done.


PLUS


Dan Pink, author of When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing on when we're at our best and the power of the power nap.


AND


Comedian Kiri Pritchard McLean joins us to advocate citizens' service for all, criminalising the bystanders and community planting


CONTACT US

[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/reasonstobecheerfulpodcast

https://twitter.com/cheerfulpodcast

https://www.instagram.com/cheerfulpodcast/

MERCH

https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/cheerfulpodcast/

CONTACT OUR GUESTS

Cat Hobbs - https://twitter.com/CatHobbs

Nicole Badstuber - https://twitter.com/NicoleBadstuber

Dan Pink - https://twitter.com/DanielPink

Kiri Pritchard-McLean - https://twitter.com/kiripritchardmc



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Reasons Revisited - CHATTEROO #8

CHATTEROO #8

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01/22/24 • 24 min

Life is a Chatteroo, old chum! Come to the Chatteroo.


Hello, and welcome to this week's catch-up, during which we discuss afternoon tea, including young voices in the climate conversation, a hat made of mushrooms, and workplace wellbeing and urban rewilding.


Send us an email: [email protected]



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How many episodes does Reasons Revisited have?

Reasons Revisited currently has 376 episodes available.

What topics does Reasons Revisited cover?

The podcast is about News, Podcasts, Politics and Government.

What is the most popular episode on Reasons Revisited?

The episode title 'Driven to distraction: can we resist the attention economy?' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Reasons Revisited?

The average episode length on Reasons Revisited is 50 minutes.

How often are episodes of Reasons Revisited released?

Episodes of Reasons Revisited are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Reasons Revisited?

The first episode of Reasons Revisited was released on Sep 19, 2017.

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